Brevity is a quality that few men have, and this quality refers to someone who uses few words to get their point across and who speaks for brief durations. Being long winded and going on and on about a subject is likely to cause the listener to lose interest quickly. Brevity is the mark of a great orator, one who uses concise sentences in order to convey what they want to say to their audience. Sometimes brevity may be taken as terseness, and there are times when this quality is not needed at all in certain situations.